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The Beeman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$21,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$270k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Beeman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$45k31%
FY202411$55k18%
FY202311$66k55%
FY202211$45k55%
FY202114$70k50%
FY202011$42k55%
FY201910$41k70%
FY201811$109k45%
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$243kReligion$169kHealth$83kPhilanthropy$12kScience & Tech$10kCivil Rights$5kYouth Development$3kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
MO
MD
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint Joseph's University$124,00070%
Alvernia University$66,00020%
Salus University$34,40070%
Apostles of Jesus$12,5003n/a
Lancaster General Health Foundation$12,30011%
Fighting Back Scholarship Program Inc$11,50032%
Debbink Family Foundation Inc$11,40012%
Drexel University$6,65010%
Lancaster General Hospital$6,00020%
Widener University$5,50030%
Show all 16 grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($278k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Beeman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaint Joseph's University: $124,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAlvernia University: $66,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalus University: $34,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLancaster General Health Foundation: $12,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFighting Back Scholarship Program Inc: $11,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDebbink Family Foundation Inc: $11,400 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDrexel University: $6,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLancaster General Hospital: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWidener University: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe College of Physicians of Philadelphia: $5,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFounding Forward (Formerly the Union League Legacy Foundation): $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Nashville Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLancaster County Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA11.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Beeman Family Foundation

How much does The Beeman Family Foundation give?
The Beeman Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $45,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Beeman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Religion (29%), Health (14%).
Who are The Beeman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saint Joseph's University ($124k), Alvernia University ($66k), Salus University ($34k).
Does The Beeman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Beeman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Beeman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is The Beeman Family Foundation based?
The Beeman Family Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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